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Maya Nadimpalli

Dr. Maya Lakshmi Nadimpalli is a Research Assistant Professor at Tufts University with a research focus on antibiotic resistance.

Personal History Dr. Nadimpalli was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, in 1988 and attended Leominster High School. Her parents, Nadimpalli Mahadev and Aparna Mahadev (née Ramanathan), relocated to Massachusetts from Canada in the 1980s and have both been computer science professors for over 20 years.

Academic History and Positions Dr. Nadimpalli attended McGill University, graduating with a Bachelors of Arts and Science in Environmental Health in 2010, and went on to receive a MS (2012) and Ph.D (2015) in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of North Carolina (UNC).

In 2018 she joined Tufts University as a civil and environmental engineering research fellow. In 2020, she was named a research assistant professor within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a core faculty member of the Stuart B. Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance (Levy CIMAR).

Research Dr. Nadimpalli’s research combines tools from environmental microbiology, epidemiology, and genomics to investigate the selection and spread of emerging, antibiotic-resistant pathogens to vulnerable human communities, both in the US and across the globe. Dr. Nadimpalli previously worked as part of the Environmental Health Microbiology Lab at UNC, which uses microbial source tracking methods to distinguish sources of water contamination. She also worked as a Gillings Global Public Health Fellow at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, where she focused on examining whether meat and fish could be sources of community exposure to multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Selected honors and awards Between 2011 and 2014, Dr. Nadimpalli was selected for the Science to Achieve Results Fellowship by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In 2020, Dr. Nadimpalli received the KL2 Mentored Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).